Post by Brian on May 17, 2014 23:23:52 GMT -8
This webpage is a continuation of the two-page "Silent movies at UCLA" thread here on the Montrose Peace Vigil message board, which covers every annual event since 2007 over 19 posts. Welcome to 2014, a very special year.
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its silent film fundraisers in UCLA's Royce Hall by playing the score of Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times" at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, June 8. Timothy Brock will also conduct a newly commissioned score that he composed for the short film from 1914, "Kid Auto Races at Venice," which marked the first time that the Little Tramp appears in costume. One hundred years! Tickets are still available directly from the LACO on its website:
www.laco.org/events/245/
Back in 1970, when I was in junior high school, there was a big revival of W.C. Fields movies and kids like me had posters of him on their walls. Fields led me back into silent films. I've seen "Modern Times" in several theaters and auditoriums in the past 45 years, but never with a live orchestra. For our eighth consecutive silent film gala, Anni and I will return to our favorite seats in the front row, absorbing the full force of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra -- and Chaplin's vision.
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its silent film fundraisers in UCLA's Royce Hall by playing the score of Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times" at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, June 8. Timothy Brock will also conduct a newly commissioned score that he composed for the short film from 1914, "Kid Auto Races at Venice," which marked the first time that the Little Tramp appears in costume. One hundred years! Tickets are still available directly from the LACO on its website:
www.laco.org/events/245/
Back in 1970, when I was in junior high school, there was a big revival of W.C. Fields movies and kids like me had posters of him on their walls. Fields led me back into silent films. I've seen "Modern Times" in several theaters and auditoriums in the past 45 years, but never with a live orchestra. For our eighth consecutive silent film gala, Anni and I will return to our favorite seats in the front row, absorbing the full force of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra -- and Chaplin's vision.
